analyze own classroom experiences through useful lenses derived from readings
hone critical thinking through collective discussion of several experiences through the lens of our readings
Schedule of activities
2:00 Gather and review names and website --What do you see the students in your school listening to or reading? What technologies are they allowed to have in school? --What do we notice about wiki posts? Questions about purpose, audience, genre for wiki posting?
2:15 Reviewing Lenses for analysis from the readings & Discussion
To what extent do your students:
feel safe (San Antonio and Salzfass 43)?
experience "verbal, physical, or psychological abuse or teasing accompanied by real or perceived imbablance of power", i.e. bully or get bullied (San Antonio and Salzfass 42)?
trust that teachers have a process for identifying, responding to and reporting bullying (San Antonio and Salzfass 45)?
act kindly, with courage, generosity and thoughtfulness (San Antonio and Salzfass 45)?
seem secure in their identities and purposes?
know how cheating is monitored and what the consequences of cheating are (Strom and Strom 51)?
feel pressure from parents and teachers to get high grades (Strom and Strom 51)?
see cheating as a cultural norm (e.g. Everyone is doing it, even adults) (Strom and Strom 51)?
seem to believe that intelligence is a fixed quality one has or doesn't have (Dweck 59)?
receive praise for their performance or for their engagement and perseverance (Dweck 59)?
understand how the brain works and grows "smarter" (Dweck 60)?
Other questions
read and write outside of class?
play video games?
see adults reading and writing to accomplish personally meaningful tasks?
Schedule of activities
2:00 Gather and review names and website
--What do you see the students in your school listening to or reading? What technologies are they allowed to have in school?
--What do we notice about wiki posts? Questions about purpose, audience, genre for wiki posting?
2:15 Reviewing Lenses for analysis from the readings & Discussion
To what extent do your students:
Other questions
Other Questions and Resources:
What your students' out of school literacy practices? What practices are they doing unassisted and unprompted?
Understanding scaffolded instruction within students' zone of proximal development.
What prior funds of knowledge do your students possess from their out of school cultures and practices?